We're moving

Onsite is closed until June 2017 in preparation for the opening of our new location at 199 Richmond St. W.

Officially opened in 2007 as the OCAD Professional Gallery, the gallery became Onsite Gallery in 2010.

Onsite Gallery

Onsite Gallery, OCAD University’s professional gallery and experimental curatorial platform for art, design and digital media, fosters social and cultural transformations. Onsite Gallery serves the OCAD University community and the general public.

Mandate

Onsite Gallery’s mandate is:

To advance the goals, aspirations and strategic priorities of OCAD University

To collaborate with professional artists, designers and curators

To develop public art, design and media interventions and works outside of the gallery

To play a leadership role in developing dialogues and programming of relevance to Toronto, and to link these to international practices and issues

To involve and respond to a diverse public of students, faculty and staff, as well as local and international cultural participants

To stimulate curricular and co-curricular learning and innovative research in art, design and curatorial practice

To heighten the public profile of OCAD University and to provide vital encounters between the university and the public

To develop programs, systems and policies that involve and converse with people of widely differing experiences, including students, faculty, staff, researchers, artists, designers, curators and the general public

To support excellence in visual culture

To promote engaged citizenship through exploration of society, culture and aesthetics